Butcher&#39;s apron and fasteners therefor



Jan. 14, 1.930, G. PQP ET AL 1,743,729

BUTCH'ERS APRON AND FASTENERS THEREFOR Original Filed July 12. 1928 Patented Jan. 14, 1930 UNITED STATES GLEN L. POPE AND .ABE COHEN, OF OMA-HA, NEBRASKA.

BUTCHERS A PRON AND FASTENERS THEREFOR Application filed July 12, 1928, Serial No. 292,088. RenewedNovember 25, 1929.

This invention relates to an improvement in aprons and particularly to aprons worn by butchers or others and which require frequent laundering.

5 One object of the invention is to provide means which will be convenient in use for securing the apron to the body of the wearer.

Another object is to provide such an arran ement of parts that the tie-strings will not e- 1c come detached or torn from the apron during the operation of laundering. Still another object is to provide fabric fasteners for the removable hooks of the apron which will lie comparatively flat when ironed and will not 15 present the appearance of a pad or roll. Also the invention includes a reduced part for the neckband, to prevent buckling or injury to said band during the operation of laundering.

With the foregoing objects in view, the in- 20 vention presents a new and useful construction, combination and arrangement of parts as described and claimed herein, and as shown in the accompanying drawing, it being understood that changes may be made in form,

25 size, proportion and minor details, said changes being determined by the scope of the invention as claimed. n

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a view showing the front .of the apron with parts extended. Fig. 2 is a detail showing a roll or fold for the neck band. Fig. 3 is a broken away detail showing the rear side of the apron provided with loops to facilitate laundering. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail showing a mounting for a removable hook. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing a fabric fastener. Fig. 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawing for a more particular description, the invention is shown and described in connection with an apron 6 provided with a neck band 7 of loop-form at its upper end and having a pair of opposed tie-strings S and 8', this apron being the kind generally used by butchers, the strings eX- tending entirely around the body and secured together at the front or tied together at the back after the band 7 has encircled the neck of the wearer.

In order that these aprons may be washed and ironed it is -necessary that any metallic parts used as fastening devices be removed, and therefore each tie-string is provided at its rear side near its endwith a hook 9 which may be-readily removed since they are mounted in eyelets 10 which are formed in said strings. Y

`The particular hooks andy their mounting thus mentioned are not claimed'as a part of the present application but are shown, de-v scribed and claimed in a pending companion application for Letters Patent Serialv No. 286,458, Patent No. 1,7 00,594, datedv January 29, 1929.

We provide a pair of elongated iiexible fastener-members indicated respectively at -11 and 12-each consist-ingof a strip of tape wound spirallyto rovide holder-wings vor` pockets lfor receiving the fpr'ong 14 of a hook, said pockets beingfdisposed inspace'd relation at longitudinalintervals-of a fastening-member. VNumerals 15 indicate rows of stitches for securing theloops of the spirally disposed tape of each fastener-member to a fabric strip v16, and each strip 16 is secured to the apron, at vits front side, by rows ofstitches 17.

The fastener members thus described, when the apron is laundered, will lieflat upon the fabric of'theapron for the reason that the loops are disposed in spaced relation, and therefore these members will be'comparatively thin, and when the apron islaundered they will not'be obtrusive andwill avoid the appearance of rolls or pads.

In operation after the neck band has been placedlto encircle thefneck, the apron will be disposed. to cover the frontpart of the body. The wearer then draws the apron stringr 8 around the back'to attach it Ato vthe fastener 12, the apron Ystring* 8 beingmoved ,in areverse direction to be attachedzto the fastenermember 11, thehooks Qcarried by the respectivetie-istringfs each-engaging in a selected pocket 13 of a .fastening-member-11 and 12I The act of placing the apronin operative position asl described may be, conveniently and readily performed, and the apron will suitably ft the body of thelwearer, the prongs 14. engaging in the selected pockets men tioned for ca .loose or; close fit, asma?. be tde' strings and neck band, at the rear side thereof, and Jfor the purpose of preventing injury to the strings and prevent detachment thereof from the apron during the operation of washing and while moving through the mangle the apron strings are placed in said loops 18, and since the part of the apron to rst enter the mangle is its bottom, the strings will be pressed upon the fabric of the apron while held within the loops 18, and will be protected from injury.

Also in order that the neck band 7 will not become buckled or injured while the apron is moving through the mangle, its middle part is formed as a roll 19, this being accomplished simply by folding this band upon itself transversely and connecting the parts by stitches 20. Since this reduced part 19 is approximately of rope-form it will not become injured when the apron moves through the mangle, and the remaining parts of the neck l band will be permitted to remain in a flat condition while pressed by the mangle and buckling or'injury, by reason of this construction, may be avoided.

By referring to Fig. 4 of the drawing it will be seen that the tie-strings of the apron are of such construction that the metallic hooks 9 will be entirely concealed when the apron is in use, each tie-string being formed as a sheath, the inner strip 21 being provided with eyelets 10 for receiving the shanks of the hooksand the outer strip 22 operating to cover said hooks so that they will not be obtrusive.

We claim as our invention,-

1. An improved apron having a pair of tiestrings extending from its opposed edges, a pair of fabric fastener-members attached to the front of the apron, and a pair of hooks each adapted to be removably mounted in a tie-string :for engagement with a fastenermember. j

2. An improvement in an apron having a pair of tie-strings provided with eyelets and attached to its opposed edges, a pair of elongated, fabric fastener-members each secured to the front of the apron equi-distant from said opposed edges of the apron, and a pair of metallic hooks each adapted to be removably mounted in the eyelets of the Vtie-strings for engaging a fastener-member.

3. An improved apron having a pair of tie-strings each including an outer and an inner fabric strip and having a pair of eyelets signatures.

GLEN L. POPE. ABE COHEN. 

